Plenty of college athletic departments sponsor halls of fame. But the one that has just opened at the former Compton Community College is epic. Since Compton opened nearly a century ago, the college has sent teams and athletes to national championships and on to gold medals at the Olympics. This hall of fame is central to an effort to uplift the campus after a spell of mismanagement nearly a decade ago that nearly sunk the community college.
As a high school student, Albert “Lefty” Olguin drove from his home in San Pedro to Compton College to see for himself if the Tartar men’s basketball team was as good as he’d heard.
It was better, he says.
